The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job

Posted on 26 August 2019 by Karen Kelsky

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment For every comfortably tenured professor or well paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many who simply give up in frustration Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack they have a plan They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all too common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D toward other, non academic options Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including When, where, and what to publish Writing a foolproof grant application Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV Acing the job talk and campus interview Avoiding the adjunct trap Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many. Free Read [ The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job ] author [ Karen Kelsky ] – kino-fada.fr An empowering and disillusioning resource for those who want a tenure track academic job after finishing their Ph.D I would recommend it to those in the early stages of their graduate careers, as Karen Kelsky does a fantastic job offering insight on the steps to secure a job as a professor Drawn from her own experience as a former tenured professor and department head as well as her thriving blog business The Professor Is In, her advice spans the importance of focusing on publishing and An empowering and disillusioning resource for those who want a tenure track academic job after finishing their Ph.D I would recommend it to those in the early stages of their graduate careers, as Karen Kelsky does a fantastic job offering insight on the steps to secure a job as a professor Drawn from her own experience as a former tenured professor and department head as well as her thriving blog business The Professor Is In, her advice spans the importance of focusing on publishing and grants, how to present yourself at conferences and at job talks, and the most effective ways to write stellar job documents This book s most consistent strength comes from how it reframes academia from a utopia of intellectual rigor and freedom to a money making venture designed to push you to the limits of your productivity...They should give you this book when you get into grad school.I have mixed feelings about this book I d like to give somewhere between 2 and 3 stars, but leaning a bittowards 2 stars I didn t appreciate the tone in the book, which I would describe as declaratory and commanding You need to build a competitive record, you can t waste time on teaching, and you can t act like yourself because acting like a grad student will not get you an academic position But perhaps a part of what made me uncomfortable is that the author was pretty much I have mixed feelings about this book I d like to give somewhere between 2 and 3 stars, but leaning a bittowards 2 stars I didn t appreciate the tone in the book, which I would describe as declaratory and commanding You need to build a competitive record, you can t waste time on teaching, and you can t act like yourself because acting like a grad student will not get you an academic position But perhaps a part of what made me uncomfortable is that the author was pretty much pinpointing exactly what I m lacking or doing wrong in my PhD program I know that there needs to be a plan towards publishing stuff, and to take time to present your stuff well It s a serious job you re looking for in academia, and it s really not an easy route to get tenure With all of the requirements that the author was as it felt to me trying to shove down our throats while exhibiting little sympathy for us grad students who are just tryin...Karen Kelsky is a former tenured faculty member who decided to leave academia and switch to a career where she helps others find academic positions This started as a blog and became this book and a career consulting service To me this book would be most useful to a student just starting a pHD program in the humanities As someone in the 5th year of a postdoc in the sciences I didn t find it quite as helpful The author acknowledges that she is a humanities pHD and not everything she has to say Karen Kelsky is a former tenured faculty member who decided to leave academia and switch to a career where she helps others find academic positions This started as a blog and became this book and a career consulting service To me this book would be most useful to a student just starting a pHD program in the humanities As someone in the 5th year of a postdoc in the sciences I didn t find it quite as helpful The author acknowledges that she is a humanities pHD and not everything she has to say is applicable A lot of it does seem universally applicable, but some is obviously not for example I have a feeling giving a job talk in the sciences reading from a paper would be the end of my chances of getting that job There is also a lot of information that won t really h...This would have been muchhelpful at the earlier stages of my PhD, but it was useful anyway.Brutally honest, insightful, and essential Most of the other reviews have already touched on the relevant issues Here s what s not talked about this book is not nuanced in terms of race, gender, class The shifting of personal pronouns can be problematic whenever it s hypothetical, the successful candidate tends to be male, while the sad, rejected candidate tends to be female Advice for women is specifically doled out unevenly Women, speak in a lower register if you can p 45 Dr Brutally honest, insightful, and essential Most of the other reviews have already touched on the relevant issues Here s what s not talked about this book is not nuanced in terms of race, gender, class The shifting of personal pronouns can be problematic whenever it s hypothetical, the successful candidate tends to be male, while the sad, rejected candidate tends to be female Advice for women is specifically doled out unevenly Women, speak in a lower register if you can p 45 Dr Kelsky encourages graduate students to butch it up ibid Also, Lines may seem friendly and engaged, but are actually overly emotional and highly feminized p 167 8 and subtitles like Especially if you are female p 167.In ...This book came into my life at the best time Part of me wishes I had read it before graduate school but I think I got the most out of it right now I would definitely recommend it to people who are thinking about graduate school and going into academia as it lays out a very competitive career track and exact steps to take to get there Steps for which I realized, as I read through, I had certainly missed the boat Dr Kelsky delivers some harsh realities about graduate school and the job market This book came into my life at the bes...Reading college advice guides is a lot like looking at those pictures where they overlap the faces of the 25 hottest stars to show you what beauty is You can pick out an ear here, an eyelash there, but you realize they re almost all exactly the same The Professor Is in The Essential Guide to Turning Your PH.D Into a Job is the Quasimodo of this allegory Karen Kelsky s guide to transitioning from grad student to tenure track faculty doesn t overlap with books of its ilk, and it looks pretty Reading college advice guides is a lot like looking at those pictures where they overlap the faces of the 25 hottest stars to show you what beauty is You can pick out an ear here, an eyelash there, but you realize they re almost all exactly the same The Professor Is in The Essential Guide to Turning Your PH.D Into a Job is the Quasimodo of this allegory Karen Kelsky s guide to transitioning from grad student to tenure track faculty do...There is one word to describe this book ANGRY.Thankfully, Kelsky does admit that towards the end of the book What am I ANGRY ABOUT you KNOW what I m angry about I m angry about all those f ing professors sitting in their f ing offices earning good f ing salaries while the entire academy is going to shit, and their grad students are milling around like a bunch of los...This book is a nightmare, and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible As a PhD candidate working on my dissertation, I m extremely not married to the idea of an academic career, but through a combination of apathy no clear direction for what else to do , shame leaving academia HOW COULD YOU , worry about my skills but I ve only been trained for teaching and research , and terror no explanation needed , feel compelled to at least try the academic job market this coming fall This book is a nightmare, and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible As a PhD candidate working on my dissertation, I m extremely not married to the idea of an academic career, but through a combination of apathy no clear direction for what else to do , shame leaving academia HOW COULD YOU , worry about my skills but I ve only been trained for teaching and research , and terror no explanation needed , feel compelled to at least try the academic job market this...

The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job

English
26 August 2019

Karen Kelsky